Partially Examined Life

On The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), focusing on lectures 1-3 and 20. What is religion and how should philosophers study it?
James describes it as a sincere, full-life reaction to the world, more emotional than intellectual, and conveys the experiences of the extreme "religious geniuses" that are merely received second or third hand by the believing masses.
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[@michaelcrane970]

thank you. I was actually assigned this book in a poetry course. (however, I was a philosophy major). y'alls discussion is bringing me back to the corners of my brain trying to understand it. -I was also reading fear and trembling in my philosophy courses, and henry James in my lit courses. Good work.

[@Romothon]

I was watching some other debate video and one person quoted the "unexamined life is not worth living” which immediately reminded me about PLE. I used to listen to this show on the long greyhound trips home from college every couple of weeks, but that was years ago. Quite a backlog I got to listen to.

[@antinoris]

very lively and precise qualification of those vague issues; waiting for the second part.